Investment-friendly policymaking for key labour-intensive sectors, including real estate and tourism, can have multiplier effects in terms of empowering people, creating skills and gene-rating jobs. With demand for services in short supply, education is emerging as a labour magnet. Creaking government infrastructure barely satisfies India's mammoth student population, so more private players need to take up a supporting role. On health, let's think both ends of the social spectrum by building and running rural assets as well as promoting top dollar medical tourism. Boosted construction, a key growth driver, can serve social goals by creating affordable housing and spur infrastructure-building from malls and parks to ports and expressways providing jobs on a vast scale.

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